Well, dang. And people usually refer to me as Nano, although that isn't a very good gangsta pimp name, alas. When I first made up the name, I wanted people to call me Moose, but since my sister already had the name Moose Juice, that was out. Oh well. I've come to prefer Nano. What weirds me out a little bit is how many people have names meaning the same thing, like littlemoose. I take it you don't mind being called Squeem? One thing I love about my country is how, for a while, they wanted to set our national anthem to the tune of a song about a sheep thief that jumped into a billabong. And how so many of our 'cultural traditions' are completely ridiculous. And, no, we don’t actually have chickens. Any time you hear any of us referring to 'chicken' nuggets or any other 'chicken' product, we actually mean 'koala'. (Really? Huh. I never knew that! Yank is just what my dad tends to refer to Americans as and I use jokingly every now and then. He, uh, doesn't like them very much, but that's because some American soldiers nearly blew him up while mortaring an area, when he was in Vietnam. Their excuse that they were high on marijuana didn't exactly endear them to him.)
THEY ARE. Man, one day I'd just love to see how the hell they make some of the decisions they make. My brother's teachers were apparently really cool. Like, there was this one guy who would randomly leave class for no reason, and one that would rant about how he could make everything better in the school, and another one that barely raised an eyebrow when my brother leapt to his feet, yelling that he would tear out her heart, in the middle of her class. Er. My brother's a bit theatrical. I apologise for this random and likely disturbing insight into my childhood.
THEY DO? WHY? He's so boring. I preferred him as an ineffectual villain. Yay, the Mayor! I still think he was the best villain Joss ever wrote, equaled maybe by the Operative and how polite and dedicated and professional and completely batshit crazy he was. (Wow, did you have to get it professionally altered, or do they sell them premade?) She looked very pretty! And she was quite willing to pose with my friend's cane for photos, it was so cute.
I cannot see the text, no, but, uh, I can't see the icon, either. One of my teachers used to go on and on and on with these completely off-topic stories for, like, ages. We hardly ever got any work done, but they were pretty interesting. Hee, I saw those same students in the Japanese gardens, actually. They were, um, sword-fighting. I think they were practicing for Macbeth, because I heard one of them say "Damned be him that first cries, 'Hold! Enough!'" What an awesome way to spend an afternoon. Abba babba, ebbe bebbe, ibbi bibbi, obbo bobbo, ubbu bubbu…and then, acca cacca, ecce cecce, icci cicci, occo cocco, uccu cuccu…and so on through the alphabet. Was that what it was like?
I will have to post it, then. I have no idea why I latched onto the idea of sketches in particular, although I do sketch a lot. And I love the word chiaroscuro. Man, I want to invent a meme where you make up mental worlds for characters! The thing I like about Psychonauts is that it's far more benign than Silent Hill. I mean, in SH it's all about the dark within shaping the dark without, taking what's broken and shattering it further; with Psychonauts, it's all about redemption. I think Hester's far away world would be beautiful, but you can never touch it, and I also think Valentine would be in there. Because he's a part of her, no matter how far she runs. Man, Shrike's mind would be so cool to see in the game! And also, creepy. Is his tail as awesome as Raiden's swooshy hair? (Ooh, I'm reminded of one of my favourite things in Jak and Daxter – have you noticed that if you do the spin-kick enough time in quick succession, Daxter gets wrapped around Jak's face, and he has to pull him off?)
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Date: 2006-12-12 07:11 am (UTC)THEY ARE. Man, one day I'd just love to see how the hell they make some of the decisions they make. My brother's teachers were apparently really cool. Like, there was this one guy who would randomly leave class for no reason, and one that would rant about how he could make everything better in the school, and another one that barely raised an eyebrow when my brother leapt to his feet, yelling that he would tear out her heart, in the middle of her class. Er. My brother's a bit theatrical. I apologise for this random and likely disturbing insight into my childhood.
THEY DO? WHY? He's so boring. I preferred him as an ineffectual villain. Yay, the Mayor! I still think he was the best villain Joss ever wrote, equaled maybe by the Operative and how polite and dedicated and professional and completely batshit crazy he was. (Wow, did you have to get it professionally altered, or do they sell them premade?) She looked very pretty! And she was quite willing to pose with my friend's cane for photos, it was so cute.
I cannot see the text, no, but, uh, I can't see the icon, either. One of my teachers used to go on and on and on with these completely off-topic stories for, like, ages. We hardly ever got any work done, but they were pretty interesting. Hee, I saw those same students in the Japanese gardens, actually. They were, um, sword-fighting. I think they were practicing for Macbeth, because I heard one of them say "Damned be him that first cries, 'Hold! Enough!'" What an awesome way to spend an afternoon. Abba babba, ebbe bebbe, ibbi bibbi, obbo bobbo, ubbu bubbu…and then, acca cacca, ecce cecce, icci cicci, occo cocco, uccu cuccu…and so on through the alphabet. Was that what it was like?
I will have to post it, then. I have no idea why I latched onto the idea of sketches in particular, although I do sketch a lot. And I love the word chiaroscuro. Man, I want to invent a meme where you make up mental worlds for characters! The thing I like about Psychonauts is that it's far more benign than Silent Hill. I mean, in SH it's all about the dark within shaping the dark without, taking what's broken and shattering it further; with Psychonauts, it's all about redemption. I think Hester's far away world would be beautiful, but you can never touch it, and I also think Valentine would be in there. Because he's a part of her, no matter how far she runs. Man, Shrike's mind would be so cool to see in the game! And also, creepy. Is his tail as awesome as Raiden's swooshy hair? (Ooh, I'm reminded of one of my favourite things in Jak and Daxter – have you noticed that if you do the spin-kick enough time in quick succession, Daxter gets wrapped around Jak's face, and he has to pull him off?)